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Old Caspar tor>k it from the boy. " Now tell us what ’twas all
Who stood erpectant by; about,”
And then tbe old man shook Youog Pcterkin he cries;
his head, And little Wilhelmine looks up,
And with a natural sigh :— With wonder-waiting eyes:
“ ’Tis some poor fellows skull/1 44 Now tell ua all about the war.
said he, And what th&i k illd each other
“ Who fell in the Great Victory. /o r? "
“ I find them in the garden, for *4 It was the English,” Caspar
There's many here about; cried,
And often when I go to plough, “ That put the French to rou t ;
Tbe plough share turns them But what they kill'd each other for
out; I could not well make out;
For many athousand men/' said he, But everybody said," quoth be,
“ Wcrealainin the Great Victorv/' “ That 'twas a Famous Victory !

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My father lived at Blenheim 14 With fire and sword tbe couh-
then, try round
Yon little stream hard by; Was wasted far and wide :
They burnt his dwelling to tho And many achi lding mother then*
ground. And ncw-bom infant died
And he was forced to fly: But things like that, you knowt
So with his wife and child he fled, must be,
Nor had he where to rest his head: At every Famous Victory.
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